Acquisition expands and accelerates Carbon's ability to produce new end products at scale.
Carbon, a leader in 3D printing technology, announces the acquisition of ParaMatters, an additive manufacturing software provider. With this acquisition, Carbon adds topology optimisation to its current software capabilities. As a result, Carbon's technology platform is even more comprehensive and now allows product design and development teams to create better products in less time, using a wide range of materials and production systems.
Most software platforms used to design and manufacture products are optimised for the more limited capabilities of traditional manufacturing, including injection moulding, casting and subtractive processes. There is a lack of advanced design software solutions that can allow for rapid iterations while taking advantage of additive manufacturing, which still limits the acceleration of product development. With the acquisition, Carbon fills this gap and expands its generative design software to enable the automated creation of more complex, high-performance part designs. The new capabilities follow Carbon's introduction of Design Engine™ software earlier this year, which is used by global brands to automate the process of developing lattice structures for volume products.
"We recognise the critical role that software design tools play in our customers' digital transformation. For far too long, design engineers have been content with software solutions that adhere to the limitations of traditional manufacturing," said Phil DeSimone, co-founder and co-CEO of Carbon. "Many legacy design tools are not optimised to take advantage of industry innovations, including advanced 3D printing materials and manufacturing processes. Carbon and ParaMatters share the same vision of providing modern tools that help product designers create better products in less time."
"Software is the backbone of our 'Idea-to-Production' platform, and we believe ParaMatters' generative design capabilities are an important extension of our design software," said Craig Carlson, Carbon's chief technology officer and co-CEO. "By expanding our software capabilities that specialise in additive manufacturing, we enable designers and developers to create better end products with advanced geometries and improved performance characteristics."
"The ParaMatters team is proud of the software design tools we have developed to advance additive manufacturing. The ability to expand our offering as part of Carbon's 'Idea-to-Production' platform allows our customers to design and produce better products," said Robert Yusin, Chairman and CEO of ParaMatters. "Together as a team, we intend to continue to drive new opportunities in the manufacturing industry."
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